Shelf Blog: Customer Service

Your call center agents are your organization’s frontline responders – the first point of contact between your organization and the customer (or, in some cases, potential customer). To the caller, the person on the other end of the phone line represents your company as a whole. It’s no...

Like it or not, your customer’s experience is everything. If your call center offers substandard customer service, service quality issues can significantly impact your company’s revenue if left unchecked. Think the customer experience doesn’t matter as long as you offer a good product?...

Before you build an agent improvement plan, ask yourself: why spend time recruiting and training new agents if you don’t have to? Most contact centers planned for growth this year, but hiring great talent has been challenging. Companies like xtDirect had to reduce their agent count by 25% due to...

Still getting used to leading a modern customer service team, a largely distributed workforce, adjusting to the ‘new normal’? Chances are your customer service team is too; most agents can’t just tap a coworker on the shoulder like they used to whenever a customer has a question. You need some...

Leaders across all departments—including the contact center—are now dealing with hiring challenges AND problems with legacy technology just a few years removed from the 2020 pandemic. More contact center agents are working remotely than ever before, managers are struggling to boost agent...

How can developing a call center decision tree help your team? Do you know how much time your support team wastes each year finding answers to complex customer questions? Inefficiency costs companies more than you might realize: 516 million hours each year from inefficient software alone according...